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What the title asks really. You can customise the AEL button to one of several other functions if you prefer however the ones I tend to use in manual mode are already designated elsewhere on the body. So far I haven't been inspired to assign it a new function. 99.9% of the time I'm in manual so I'm curious if anyone has found a particular setting useful?